:00:00. > :00:08.dual fuel customers will go up by more than 9%. That is all
:00:09. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to the programme. The headlines: Police raid homes
:00:17. > :00:20.across Birmingham to track down an international drug scam, bringing
:00:21. > :00:24.heroin into the UK. They've been using human careers, who have been
:00:25. > :00:30.bringing their heroin in. Normally around four to 12 kilos each time.
:00:31. > :00:37.It follows the discovery of 95 kilos of heroin destined for the UK, with
:00:38. > :00:41.a street value of this `` of ?5 million. 700 badgers are killed in
:00:42. > :00:45.Gloucestershire, less than half the government target.
:00:46. > :00:48.The time frame is now likely to be extended. Wolverhampton council
:00:49. > :00:52.tries to save nearly ?100 million over the next five years.
:00:53. > :00:58.We are going to pay more for less which is what keeps happening. These
:00:59. > :01:04.are tough times. It's just not good. Under threat, a memorial to soldiers
:01:05. > :01:08.who died in the First World War. Now 10,000 people have signed a
:01:09. > :01:11.petition to save it. And we have the weather.
:01:12. > :01:15.Today raised hopes. Is the rest of the week going to
:01:16. > :01:24.dash them as all eyes turn to the weekend. The forecast for you later.
:01:25. > :01:29.Good evening. Five people have been arrested in early morning raids in
:01:30. > :01:33.the West Midlands, on suspicion of trafficking large amounts of heroin
:01:34. > :01:36.into the UK. Police believe they're responsible for importing the drug
:01:37. > :01:41.from Pakistan, through Europe via countries such as Spain. Officers
:01:42. > :01:45.have already intercepted more than 50 kilos of heroin destined for the
:01:46. > :01:47.British market which the dealers had tried to smuggle in via specially
:01:48. > :01:54.adapted suitcases, books and clothing. Today's raids were the
:01:55. > :02:05.first carried out in the Midlands by the newly formed National Crime
:02:06. > :02:08.Agency. Police moved quickly to capture
:02:09. > :02:13.suspected key players in an international smuggling gang. A man
:02:14. > :02:16.and a woman were arrested at this house in Stourbridge by officers
:02:17. > :02:19.from the newly formed National Crime Agency. Further arrests were made in
:02:20. > :02:27.the Bordesley Green and Alum Rock areas of Birmingham ` and in
:02:28. > :02:30.Bradford in West Yorkshire. We feel they are a significant gang. The
:02:31. > :02:35.drugs we seized as part of this operation with colleagues in Europe
:02:36. > :02:40.has been about 95 kilos. In the UK, we've seized 50 kilos and to put
:02:41. > :02:42.that into context, that has a street value of around ?5 million. It is a
:02:43. > :02:46.significant amount. Couriers are believed to have been used to
:02:47. > :02:49.conceal the drugs in books and next to clothes on flights to Europe from
:02:50. > :02:52.Pakistan. The National Crime Agency says it hopes today's operation will
:02:53. > :02:56.be the first of many investigations in the West Midlands that will have
:02:57. > :03:11.an improved joined up approach to fighting crime. Those arrests are
:03:12. > :03:14.part of an... Officers from Spanish police are here observing. Police
:03:15. > :03:16.officers from Holland and Germany have also been involved. The Spanish
:03:17. > :03:19.police observing said they hoped today's raid would seriously disrupt
:03:20. > :03:32.drug trafficking in their country too. One of the main priorities for
:03:33. > :03:37.the police is the cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, in
:03:38. > :03:43.order to fight organised crime groups who operate without frontiers
:03:44. > :03:46.or borders. Half the estimated 5,000 organised crime gangs operating in
:03:47. > :03:50.the UK are involved in drug smuggling ` tackling them and their
:03:51. > :03:55.global network is seen as a priority for this new crime fighting unit.
:03:56. > :04:00.Our Special correspondent Peter Wilson joins us in the studio now.
:04:01. > :04:06.So is Birmingham a major destination for heroin from Pakistan, Peter?
:04:07. > :04:12.I am not here talking about today's raids, or those that were arrested,
:04:13. > :04:17.but historically, there is a city in Pakistan called... Back in the 60s,
:04:18. > :04:22.lots of people came from there because they were building a dam and
:04:23. > :04:26.60% of the Pakistani people living in Birmingham come from that city.
:04:27. > :04:33.It's known as little Birmingham. It is also right on the route for
:04:34. > :04:38.heroin coming in from Afghanistan. There is also another community,
:04:39. > :04:41.which lives on the border of Afghanistan. Lots of people from
:04:42. > :04:45.Birmingham are from those areas as well. The vast majority are
:04:46. > :04:50.law`abiding but a small minority are linked to the heroin trade. We are
:04:51. > :04:54.hearing a lot about organised crime at the moment.
:04:55. > :04:58.What exactly does that mean? It means big business. At one time, it
:04:59. > :05:03.was estimated that drugs trade in this country alone per year was with
:05:04. > :05:11.something like ?40 billion. If you think about Land Rover doubt
:05:12. > :05:17.you are, they make ?1.6 billion a year. Drugs is ?40 billion. The sums
:05:18. > :05:21.are truly astronomical. If you years ago, I went and sat in
:05:22. > :05:26.the home of a man. I had been told he was one of the
:05:27. > :05:31.Birmingham drug lords. He told me he was a taxi driver. I had also been
:05:32. > :05:35.told he had at one time ?1 million in cash hidden under his
:05:36. > :05:40.floorboards. We went for a walk through a certain part of Birmingham
:05:41. > :05:44.in the streets and people were treating him almost like that Marlon
:05:45. > :05:49.Brando character out of the Godfather. People were bowing and
:05:50. > :05:57.scraping because he was one of the most influential people in the
:05:58. > :06:02.city. But no one had heard of him. Coming up later in the programme:
:06:03. > :06:05.Why young dads often feel isolated: a call to help fathers as young as
:06:06. > :06:08.14. The company responsible for the
:06:09. > :06:13.pilot badger cull in Gloucestershire has applied for an eight week
:06:14. > :06:16.extension to its licence. New figures were released today which
:06:17. > :06:19.showed that, in the six weeks since the shooting started, only 708
:06:20. > :06:24.badgers have been killed ` less than half the target. Our eural affairs
:06:25. > :06:29.correspondent David Gregory`Kumar is inside the cull zone for us now. So,
:06:30. > :06:36.has this all turned out to be a bit of an embarrassing failure, David?
:06:37. > :06:39.It's hugely embarassing for the Government and those running the
:06:40. > :06:46.Gloucestershire cull. It's estimated there were 2,350 badgers in the
:06:47. > :06:49.Gloucestershire cull zone. And in a programme of controlled shooting for
:06:50. > :06:53.the past six weeks, around 30% of the population have been killed.
:06:54. > :06:56.Well short of the 70% target. Now as you say the company running the cull
:06:57. > :06:59.wants to carry on for anther eight weeks.
:07:00. > :07:02.Things have gone so badly with the Gloucestershire badger cull the
:07:03. > :07:09.shooting could now carry on right up until Christmas. It is obvious that
:07:10. > :07:14.six weeks is not long enough. Somerset was granted a further three
:07:15. > :07:17.weeks. The local company have applied to Natural England for a
:07:18. > :07:22.further eight weeks and that is under discussion with them. I am
:07:23. > :07:25.very keen this is run by local people. It is down to the local
:07:26. > :07:28.company to work that out with Natural England. The Somerset cull
:07:29. > :07:37.may have faced problems but they look like achieving the cull target.
:07:38. > :07:43.So why has Gloucestershire failed so spectacularly? They will be a number
:07:44. > :07:48.of reasons why the numbers are lower than we in the culling companies
:07:49. > :07:53.have hoped. Some of them will be to do with what is happening this year,
:07:54. > :07:56.the two rain, the type of farming, what the badgers are doing and where
:07:57. > :08:01.they are eating and so on. We will consider it all in the round.
:08:02. > :08:04.Protesters are clearly a part of that. So protesters have made a big
:08:05. > :08:11.difference in Gloucestershire. They certainly made a difference. It has
:08:12. > :08:20.meant we've had to pull back our operatives to go to other areas. The
:08:21. > :08:22.government insists this is just a pilot but the highly well`equipped
:08:23. > :08:27.protesters in Gloucestershire have cause real problems for the cull.
:08:28. > :08:32.Let's talk to some of those protesters. Nick and Jean are from
:08:33. > :08:36.Gloucestershire. What is your reaction to this extension to the
:08:37. > :08:39.cull, potentially of eight weeks? If it wasn't so tragic, the whole thing
:08:40. > :08:46.would be laughable. They've had six weeks to do this. They've only
:08:47. > :08:52.killed the third of the badgers. How do they think over another
:08:53. > :08:55.eight`week period, and how then can call that an extension, I don't
:08:56. > :09:03.know, how do they think they will achieve success in bad weather? It
:09:04. > :09:08.has been a disaster from start to finish. Nick, people like you have
:09:09. > :09:11.had an impact. There are all sorts of protesters out here every night.
:09:12. > :09:15.Feet on the ground have made a big difference in Gloucestershire. We
:09:16. > :09:19.act purely within the law. We've had over 500 people as part of our
:09:20. > :09:25.patrol. We have not deliberately set out to stop the shooters that are
:09:26. > :09:28.looking for wounded badgers. If we are in a field near the shooters,
:09:29. > :09:33.they have to go somewhere else. If we've made a difference in that way,
:09:34. > :09:36.so be it. Do you think you've stopped shooting? We know we have
:09:37. > :09:39.because I've been out in the field and we've seen the shooters. The
:09:40. > :09:43.police have been called and they've been told to stop shooting. It has
:09:44. > :09:47.made an impact. People know that we are there. We've got hundreds of
:09:48. > :09:55.people coming from all over the country. They are amazing people,
:09:56. > :09:56.from all age groups, from different occupational groups. Totally
:09:57. > :10:02.incredible, out there all weathers, from seven until seven. They are
:10:03. > :10:06.mind`boggling. If more people want to join us, we would love to have
:10:07. > :10:14.them in the wounded badger patrol. This extension has been applied for
:10:15. > :10:33.and there will be a decision as soon as tomorrow.
:10:34. > :10:41.He has been released on bail to be electronically tagged before
:10:42. > :10:43.sentencing on November the 28th. Leaders in Wolverhampton say it is
:10:44. > :10:48.unlikely that any residents in the city will be left unaffected by the
:10:49. > :10:53.council 's efforts to strip out almost ?100 million from its budget
:10:54. > :10:58.over the next five years. It is now looking at 165 proposals to reduce
:10:59. > :11:04.some services as well as putting council tax bills at the first time
:11:05. > :11:07.in four years. Lifeguards at the Central Baths in
:11:08. > :11:10.Wolverhampton, road sweepers who keep the city streets clean and
:11:11. > :11:14.youth workers helping youngsters find their feet. Just three of the
:11:15. > :11:24.groups of people facing redundancy as the City Council tries to make
:11:25. > :11:30.?98 million worth of cuts by 2019. We've been forced into this position
:11:31. > :11:36.because of the reduction in government grants that we have
:11:37. > :11:44.suffered, something like 40% between 2010 and the end of 2015/16. There's
:11:45. > :11:47.been a swimming pool on Bath Avenue since 1847. The current facility is
:11:48. > :11:50.in desperate need of a refurbishment the council can't afford. This could
:11:51. > :11:55.be one of the biggest casualties of the cuts. The council was
:11:56. > :11:58.withdrawing ?316,000 worth of annual subsidy and if another operator
:11:59. > :12:05.cannot be found, it says it will have to close. Youth services in the
:12:06. > :12:09.city will also lose ?1.1 million. These young people are on a course
:12:10. > :12:12.that combines maths and english basics with learning about the music
:12:13. > :12:15.industry. It's privately funded, but at least three of the students are
:12:16. > :12:24.there because of council run projects. The duty is being used all
:12:25. > :12:28.the time so there is definitely a need for youth provision, more youth
:12:29. > :12:31.provision within Wolverhampton. To know there are going to be cuts in
:12:32. > :12:34.the city is quite sad because we're not going to be able to do some of
:12:35. > :12:39.the good work. Council tax bills are also expected to go up for the first
:12:40. > :12:42.time in four years. But one of the city's MPs says growth in the
:12:43. > :12:47.private sector should offset some of the job losses. In the West Midlands
:12:48. > :12:51.between 1997 and 2010, we were the only part of the country which saw a
:12:52. > :12:56.decrease in the number of private sector jobs. We are going to have to
:12:57. > :12:58.rebalance the economy and there are real positives which points to a
:12:59. > :13:02.positive future. The council says the financial crisis isn't their
:13:03. > :13:10.mess, but it's up to them to clear it up and everyone in the city will
:13:11. > :13:13.feel the impact. Teenage dads desperately want to be
:13:14. > :13:18.good parents, but often feel isolated, according to a report from
:13:19. > :13:22.the charity 4`Children. Now a Black Country group's calling for more
:13:23. > :13:25.help for them from the government in a region with one of the highest
:13:26. > :13:35.teenage pregnancy rates in England and some fathers as young as 14.
:13:36. > :13:45.Louise was just 15 when she became pregnant. 16`year`old Luke stood by
:13:46. > :13:50.her. Anyway, I feel like I've lost my youth but in another way, I've
:13:51. > :13:55.gained something from fatherhood. It is just amazing. The couple who live
:13:56. > :13:58.in Sandwell, admit it's been a struggle. But they're still up at
:13:59. > :14:03.five every morning, ready to leave the house at seven so Ethan can go
:14:04. > :14:10.to nursery and they can both go on to college. I want to be
:14:11. > :14:15.successful. I want my son to see that he can do what he wants to do
:14:16. > :14:22.when he is old enough, and go for it just like I have. You are doing
:14:23. > :14:26.really well. We pride view. Simon Jakeman became a father at 18. He
:14:27. > :14:29.too has been helped by the Sandwell charity Krunch which helps young
:14:30. > :14:39.fathers get into education, training or to find work. They helped me get
:14:40. > :14:45.my maths and English qualifications. That has led to me getting this job.
:14:46. > :14:49.I can provide for my family. What do you think you would have done
:14:50. > :14:53.without this? I would be unemployed, probably on the book ``
:14:54. > :14:58.Dole. I would be getting into trouble. We do parenting courses,
:14:59. > :15:04.cooking classes, basic life skills, how to use a washing machine. The
:15:05. > :15:08.charity has helped around a hundred young dads in the last four years in
:15:09. > :15:11.the Sandwell area. Teenage pregnancy rates here and across the West
:15:12. > :15:15.Midlands are some of the highest in England. Ethan is now six months
:15:16. > :15:18.old. His parents say they're determined to provide him with
:15:19. > :15:19.positive role models and they're working hard to get their lives back
:15:20. > :15:34.on track. This is our top story tonight: Five
:15:35. > :15:36.people are arrested in raids across the West Midlands as police target
:15:37. > :15:41.an international drug smuggling gang.
:15:42. > :15:43.Your detailed weather forecast to come shortly from Shefali. Also in
:15:44. > :15:47.tonight's programme: Keep on running ` a dilapidated athletics track
:15:48. > :15:53.transformed as part of our Olympic legacy.
:15:54. > :15:54.And why the dodo isn't quite as dead as we thought. Well, not in
:15:55. > :16:04.Herefordshire anyway! A public meeting's just got underway
:16:05. > :16:07.in Warwickshire to discuss controversial plans to extract gas
:16:08. > :16:10.from deep underneath the countryside around Marston. Cluff Natural
:16:11. > :16:15.Resources has applied for a licence to use a technique known as
:16:16. > :16:19.Underground Coal Gassification. Holes are drilled into coal seams
:16:20. > :16:31.deep below the surface and then set alight. That releases gases which
:16:32. > :16:33.can then be used to produce power. The Coal Authority is still
:16:34. > :16:37.considering the application which the energy firm says would create up
:16:38. > :16:40.to 400 new jobs. Our reporter Giles Latcham is in Leamington Spa where
:16:41. > :16:49.the meeting is taking place for us now. So who's arranged this tonight?
:16:50. > :16:57.It has been organised by a small group, newly formed to contest this
:16:58. > :17:03.application to drill in an area south of here. About 60 people have
:17:04. > :17:11.turned out so far, many fear it will spoil the countryside. Sue is one of
:17:12. > :17:14.the founders of this group. This application is a speculative one to
:17:15. > :17:18.see if the product is viable. It could be five years away. If it
:17:19. > :17:23.happens, you jumping the gun? I don't think so because once in while
:17:24. > :17:31.has been drilled, it is therefore perpetuity. Very many wells leaks
:17:32. > :17:35.and we don't want to see a polluting well which could spawn into hundreds
:17:36. > :17:46.of thousands. We need to know now what this could turn into. Important
:17:47. > :17:50.to distinguish this is not fracking. It uses similar technology but
:17:51. > :17:55.rather than using water and chemicals, the coal in the ground is
:17:56. > :18:00.set on fire. This is therefore quite risky business because who knows
:18:01. > :18:07.what is down there, who knows what you can release. It's a very
:18:08. > :18:12.experimental technology which almost every test has been shut down for
:18:13. > :18:16.pollution incidents. Gas prices have gone up again today. There is a rich
:18:17. > :18:21.seam of coal here. We can't ignore that, can we? They are not linked.
:18:22. > :18:25.This is an expensive technology. It takes a lot of energy to get gas
:18:26. > :18:30.from coal so deep in the ground. When it comes out, you cannot plug
:18:31. > :18:36.it in to the gas that we use. This would be used for diesel, jet fuel,
:18:37. > :18:42.it's completely fictitious to say this is helpful in that way. Many
:18:43. > :18:44.people are already very concerned about this.
:18:45. > :18:48.Almost 10,000 people have signed a petition to save a memorial to
:18:49. > :18:50.soldiers who died in the First World War. It's inside the former
:18:51. > :18:54.magistrates court in Stoke`on`Trent ` which is now for sale after it was
:18:55. > :18:58.closed as part of government saving plans. Fenton Town Hall, until
:18:59. > :19:01.recently a Magistrates' court. Inside a unique record of soldiers
:19:02. > :19:09.who gave their lives during the First World War. Made from Minton
:19:10. > :19:15.tiles, Fenton's history is built into the very fabric of the walls
:19:16. > :19:23.here. But now the building's for sale and facing an uncertain future.
:19:24. > :19:29.It is just so incredibly important that these men, most of them very
:19:30. > :19:33.young, are not forgotten and desecrated, because that is what
:19:34. > :19:38.would happen if the building was demolished. The memorial cannot be
:19:39. > :19:40.removed without being demolished. Jane Jones and Callan Chevin both
:19:41. > :19:48.have great grandfathers who fought in the North Staffs Regiment. The
:19:49. > :19:57.thought of a possibility it could be destroyed is disgusting. It is so
:19:58. > :20:00.dishonourable. As a young Pip `` person in Stoke, I feel it is my
:20:01. > :20:05.duty to carry on the memory of these fallen heroes. The war memorial
:20:06. > :20:09.outside a building makes reference to the names recorded inside. The
:20:10. > :20:13.mystery of Justice has said any sale of the building will involve a
:20:14. > :20:16.condition that the tile memorial will be preserved. It says the
:20:17. > :20:19.government has a duty to taxpayers to provide best funny for money when
:20:20. > :20:21.the property is sold. The campaigners have collected a
:20:22. > :20:24.petition with almost 10,000 signatures, they'll be delivering it
:20:25. > :20:27.to Downing Street at the weekend. They're also got poppy seeds which
:20:28. > :20:35.they're planning to plant on all roads into the town. If we can plant
:20:36. > :20:38.poppies around the town, what the residents are saying is we haven't
:20:39. > :20:41.forgotten about you. We are remembering you. Ultimatately the
:20:42. > :20:44.campaigners want the chance to buy this building themselves. They
:20:45. > :20:50.hoping it can be saved, and in doing so, they can honour the memory of
:20:51. > :20:53.soldiers who sacrificed their lives. A Birmingham athletics club which
:20:54. > :20:58.faced merger or even closure has been saved, thanks to the Olympic
:20:59. > :21:02.legacy. Sparkhill Harriers was formed more than a century ago, but
:21:03. > :21:05.its home track had fallen into disrepair and was no longer fit for
:21:06. > :21:16.use. Today, though, that track re`opened after a face`lift costing
:21:17. > :21:19.more than ?300,000. This is the Olympic legacy they
:21:20. > :21:24.promised, young people inspired by the London Games being coached by
:21:25. > :21:28.top British athletes. But just as important is the Olympic legacy
:21:29. > :21:37.under their feet. A brand new track costing 325 thousand pounds that
:21:38. > :21:41.will be home to Sparkhill Harriers. It is really good. It was better
:21:42. > :21:45.than the last track because the other track had massive holes in
:21:46. > :21:50.it. It is nice to run on it and I don't trip up sometimes. I can feel
:21:51. > :21:56.it underneath my feet, it's a lot more bouncy. It's really good. I've
:21:57. > :22:02.never felt a track like this before. It's really soft for your spikes to
:22:03. > :22:07.go on. What a legacy. The good condition of this particular track
:22:08. > :22:12.will carry on for years and years. It is so good to see so many young
:22:13. > :22:15.people enthusiastic about running. It will be well used. It was
:22:16. > :22:19.desperately needed. A year ago I filmed the shocking state into which
:22:20. > :22:22.the Fox Hollies track had fallen. Rotting equipment and an
:22:23. > :22:26.embarrassing running surface. A club founded in 1902 and with an Olympic
:22:27. > :22:33.silver medallist in their Hall of Fame faced an uncertain future. We
:22:34. > :22:35.were having great difficulty in seeing how we could keep the club
:22:36. > :22:40.going because we thought we might even have to lose the junior
:22:41. > :22:43.section. The work has gone in with various organisations to produce
:22:44. > :22:50.this new track is of importance to us. Already, to `` together with the
:22:51. > :22:53.Olympic effect, we are seeing a new influx of people coming. But funding
:22:54. > :22:56.from the city council, Sport England and Ninestiles school has
:22:57. > :23:00.transformed it. And who knows one day one of these young runners could
:23:01. > :23:05.swap a Sparkhill vest for a British Olympic vest.
:23:06. > :23:11.Now, what's the most famous of all extinct species? Surely it has to be
:23:12. > :23:15.the dodo, as in dead as. Dodos lived on the island of Mauritius and are
:23:16. > :23:18.thought to have grown to a large size because they had no natural
:23:19. > :23:21.predators. But then man arrived in the 16th century and astonishingly,
:23:22. > :23:25.within just a few decades, it had been wiped out. Now the bird forms
:23:26. > :23:31.the centrepiece of a new exhibition in Herefordshire, carrying a strong
:23:32. > :23:36.environmental message. Nature left unspoilt can look like
:23:37. > :23:41.this. The stunning secenery of the Black Mountains on the Herefordshire
:23:42. > :23:46.Welsh Border. But meddle with nature and you get the story of the extinct
:23:47. > :23:56.dodo. It's a story brought to life in this exhibtion at Monnow Valley
:23:57. > :23:59.Arts Cntre in Walterstone. Why bring this exhibition to Herefordshire?
:24:00. > :24:04.There is an important reason because this is a beautiful is it ``
:24:05. > :24:09.beautiful, unspoiled area. We are trying to get the message across to
:24:10. > :24:13.preserve the area and not to do as we did centuries ago with the dodo
:24:14. > :24:16.in Mauritius. And you've actually got the bones of the bird to bring
:24:17. > :24:21.the story to life as well. We have indeed. This is the prime exhibit
:24:22. > :24:25.here. These are actual dodo bones, the last remains of a beautiful bird
:24:26. > :24:29.that would still be alive today if it wasn't for us. The bones belong
:24:30. > :24:33.to this man. Ralfe Whistler inherited them from his late father.
:24:34. > :24:38.His Suusex home is like a permanent museum to thr woerld's largest
:24:39. > :24:52.collection of all things dodo. It is fun! It brings a smile to most
:24:53. > :24:55.people 's faces. If you are a collector, you like collecting
:24:56. > :24:58.almost anything. I do collect and it is almost now Ralfe's fascination
:24:59. > :25:02.for the The peculiar bird is being shared in our region. Built in. The
:25:03. > :25:09.name of this extinct bird comes from its rather fat behind so when the
:25:10. > :25:14.Dutch founded, they named it fat bottom. Over time, it became known
:25:15. > :25:17.as a dodo. Alas poor dodo may be dead as can be but the flighless
:25:18. > :25:25.bird sends us alla warning to look after our natural surroundings
:25:26. > :25:28.before tis too late. Let's catch up with the weather.
:25:29. > :25:35.Slightly better today, Shefali. What's the forecast?
:25:36. > :25:40.We had some sunshine today and very few showers. Yesterday, we were
:25:41. > :25:43.expecting some heavy ones but there have not been any reports of any.
:25:44. > :25:46.There has even been a positive development on the rain for
:25:47. > :25:49.tomorrow. There is still heavy rain to come but it looks as though the
:25:50. > :25:55.alignment of it was a little further west. We should miss the worst of
:25:56. > :25:59.it. Also, we have, piling in behind it, if you heavy showers. Is there
:26:00. > :26:15.anything over the weekend, there are showers will be heavier than the
:26:16. > :26:18.rain tomorrow. We have got blustery showers on Sunday. It is also going
:26:19. > :26:20.to stay quite mild. It will be fairly breezy. We got some sunshine
:26:21. > :26:23.in between those showers as well. Because of today's sunshine, we
:26:24. > :26:25.start the night off with clear skies and because of that, we could see Mr
:26:26. > :26:28.developing early on, even fog for the east of the region where we hold
:26:29. > :26:34.onto the clear skies for longest. There will be time for that to
:26:35. > :26:36.develop into fog. Later in the night, we will see the cloud
:26:37. > :26:44.thickening up from the South West, head of this rain for tomorrow. The
:26:45. > :26:52.coldest spot would be the south`west. The morning tomorrow,
:26:53. > :26:56.we've still got that fog to contend with. As the cloud pushes further
:26:57. > :27:07.eastwards, that will lift them stand for Clinton low cloud. It is a dull
:27:08. > :27:10.day tomorrow. Perhaps some heavy bursts in the rest of the region
:27:11. > :27:17.tomorrow but the temperatures will be lower tomorrow. If at all, it's
:27:18. > :27:26.tomorrow night that we will see the rain pepping up a little bit. A damp
:27:27. > :27:28.wet night tomorrow night. For the weekend, we are looking at some
:27:29. > :27:33.showers and some sunshine. Tonight's headlines from the BBC.
:27:34. > :27:37.British Gas is the latest energy supplier to put up its prices ` up
:27:38. > :27:40.to eight million households face higher bills. And police raid homes
:27:41. > :27:42.across Birmingham, as they track an international drugs gang, bringing
:27:43. > :27:46.heroin into the UK. That was the Midlands Today. David
:27:47. > :27:48.Gregory`Kumar will be back at ten o'clock with latest update on the
:27:49. > :27:49.day's news.